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NYSCA Deadline for Independent Filmmakers

The registration deadline was March 3rd.  If you registered (through TWN or another non-profit), your application deadline is May 1st, with your sample material to be postmarked then. 

Wednesday Nite Workshops Starting

Starting March 19th, 2008, a six week series of evening workshops on various production topics begins, with Ann Bennett leading a seminar on Production Planning and Budgeting.  For more information-

TWN Screening at Anthology

On March 26, 1911, 146 immigrant garment workers lost their lives at the Triangle Factory Fire in New York City. To commemorate this day, NewFilmmakers, Domestic Workers United (DWU), WITNESS and Third World Newsreel (TWN) present a film program about labor movements. Featuring The Empire's New Clothes, Talking Back, Work and Respect, Entrenched Abuse: Forced Labor in Burma and Bound By Promises: Contemporary Slavery in Rural Brazil.

March 26, 6PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street
Ticket Price: $5


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The 2008 Third World Newsreel Film and Video Production Workshop

The Application Deadline has passed.

This 6 month production workshop covers both 16mm and digital video production, from preproduction to shooting and editing. Highly selective, students meet in the evenings and shoot on the weekends. Aimed at emerging artists from communities of color, low income and other marginalized groups, this workshop is entering its 31st year! Graduates include feature directors Grace Lee ("The Grace Lee Project"), Alice Wu ("Saving Face"), Byron Hurt ("Beyond Beats and Rhymes") and many more. The extended deadline for the 2008 session applications was February 1st, 2008, and classes start in March. For information on the 2009 workshop, please go to Production Workshop.

 



Featured on the Tribeca Film Festival -Yahoo site:


SHE RHYMES LIKE A GIRL

She Rhymes Like a Girl

SHE RHYMES was featured in the festival in 2006. Props to Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union!

Third World Newsreel
545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10018


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